Senate to probe Australian Research Council grant vetoes

A parliamentary inquiry will examine the power of ministers to veto research funding after the Greens successfully referred their bill seeking to the remove the power to the Senate education committee. It follows the widely criticised intervention of acting Education minister Stuart Robert last year to block funding for six humanities research projects which had…

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